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Isle of Wight Pop Festival 1969

Isle of Wight Pop Festival 1969

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 The festival was so much larger and more popular than the year before due to Dylan's performance. He hadn't played publicly for 3 years following a near fatal motorcycle accident, July 1966. Shunning the Woodstock festival held practically on his doorstep, Bob Dylan was initially reluctant to perform his comeback show on this little known island. After weeks of negotiations the promoters showed him a short video of the Island's cultural and literary heritage
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